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  • This house believes that the romanticization of filial piety has done more harm than good

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    Filial piety refers to the virtue of respect, obedience, and care that a child is expected to show to their parents, elders, and ancestors. Often, for a child to take care of their parents when they grow up, e.g. financially

    IIT Kanpur APD 2024 · Novice Semifinals · 2024-03-29

  • This house believes that the romanticization of filial piety has done more harm than good

    Infoslide

    Filial piety refers to the virtue of respect, obedience, and care that a child is expected to show to their parents, elders, and ancestors. Often, for a child to take care of their parents when they grow up, e.g. financially

    IIT Kanpur APD 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-03-29

  • This house, as a state with an ageing population (Japan, France, Balkans...), would opt for policies that increase immigration (e.g. easing access to visas, financial incentives for companies employing immigrants, offering language courses) rather than ones that would increase natality (e.g. increasing parental leave, providing subsidies for childcare, tax breaks for parents)

    Warwick Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-03-16

  • This house, as Tan Cheng Bock, would not run in the next general election

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    NTU DC 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-03-12

  • This house prefers collectivist cyclical models of care-taking over individualist outsourcing models of care-taking

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    In collectivist filial pietal cultures (such as China), adults are responsible for working to earn an income for the family, while tasks like childcare are delegated to seniors (often the grandparents of thechild), whilst elderly care for seniors are in turn delegated to their adultchildren (who then go on to take care of their grandchildren before being takencare of by their children when they get old). In individualistic cultures (suchas The Netherlands), every adult is responsible for taking care of themselves, whilst the care-taking of seniors and children is outsourced to for-profit out-of-school-care and elderly care homes.

    Vilnius Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-03-01

  • This house would choose to age like Benjamin Button

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    Benjamin Button is a fictional character who physically ages backwards, including things such as mental capacity, and physical wellbeing. For the purposes of this debate, he is born at the age of 100, and dies when he is 0. However, Benjamin Button is still susceptible to death from other factors external to natural causes. Everyone in this world ages normally.

    Edinburgh Schools 2024 · Novice Final · 2024-03-01

  • This house prefers a world where the natural ageing process is replaced with the Shani Ageing Process

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    Under the Shani Ageing Process, the rate at which adults age is directly tied to the difference between their Carbon Footprint and the Carbon Footprint Benchmark The Carbon Footprint Benchmark is the level of Carbon Footprint on a per capita basis that would maintain the current status of the climate. The Carbon Footprint Benchmark changes over time to account for the state of the climate. For example, in 2024 the Carbon Footprint Benchmark may be X units; however, if by 2034, the health of the climate has improved, the Carbon Footprint Benchmark would increase, e.g. to X+2 units – i.e. individuals would be able to generate a higher Carbon Footprint before they reached the Carbon Footprint Benchmark. - An individual’s Carbon Footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, emitted directly or indirectly by an individual; factors such as an individual’s energy usage, travel habits, dietary choices, and consumption patterns are taken into account. Individuals with Carbon Footprints above the Carbon Footprint Benchmark age faster than natural, while those with Carbon Footprints lower than the Carbon Footprint Benchmark age slower than natural. The rate at which you age is linear not exponential (i.e. every Carbon Footprint unit above or below the Carbon Footprint Benchmark has the same impact on ageing as the previous unit). For example, consider two individuals, Abhi and Charlie, who are the same age but have different Carbon Footprints. Abhi, who lives a sustainable lifestyle with minimal carbon emissions, may age at a rate equivalent to one year for every 18 months that pass. In contrast, Charlie, whose lifestyle is characterized by high carbon emissions from excessive consumption and travel, may age at a rate of one year for every nine months that pass. An individual’s Carbon Footprint is discounted by the degree of choice they had over the relevant act. For example, consider two other individuals, Bob and Anna, if Bob invites Anna for lunch and makes steak, and they both eat the same amount of it, Bob’s Carbon Footprint would be higher than Anna if he had decided, without Anna’s input, to serve steak rather than a more environmentally friendly option. The Shani Ageing Process does not affect one’s ability to die for causes not related to ageing. In a world with the Shani Ageing Process, people’s understanding of it would mirror their understanding of the natural ageing process in the current world.

    LSE OPEN 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-02-24

  • This house regrets the I.N.D.I.A alliance situating its main campaigning strategy around the experience of its older leaders (Sharad Pawar, Sonia Gandhi, etc.)

    21st People Speak · Round 4 · 2024-02-03